What is up everybody mark on the mic here my good friend Ryan muck and herna across from

me right now with his coffee cup I forgot mine which he thinks is his but it's still mine

because it's got my name on it great topic today Ryan lightweight hunting bipods a listener

request yeah and a good one yes my personal I guess bipod use history has ebbed and

flow like the tide there's been periods where it's a necessity I always have to have it right

now I guess I'm in the flow state where I've been kind of going without just using my backpack

maybe in some ways roll on the dice saving some weight maybe saving some bulk on the

foreign of my rifle maybe roll on the dice whenever I have a bipod there's been times

where I'm okay there's been times where I thought I was going to use it and ended up not

using it and then there's been times where I was really glad I added we've got a smattering

here we got a couple we got a couple that you have pulled up in your phone that will mention

yes in spirit they're here and in spirit here yeah I think two or three different models

what are your thoughts on hunting bipods I too mark have been in a state of ebbed and flow

with bipod use only because I think that when I was not as experienced in hunting in the

places where I would use a bipod I thought it was something you had to have and then the more

I use them the more I found that was not the case or rather the bipod I wanted was never

the bipod that worked ideally I'll mention this yeah depending on where you live and hunt

geographically yeah could be a very I guess dictate if you may or may not want to use a bipod like

I like I've mentioned a million times I grew up in Western Washington hunting black tails rose

belts I mean I can't think of a time where I would have used a bipod growing up I mean the

vegetation was always too tall your firms are this tall maybe maybe if you were on a logging road

and shooting into like a younger clear cut sure sure put the old bipod down and you might be

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